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Funny enough, most of my suggestions have been covered, but I have put plenty of thought into this for my own similar circumstances. I'll post a few cheap alternatives that can be used without spending $1000 of that money at Thunder Ranch.
$20 Get Wasp Spray to keep by the front door and in your car. Wasp Spray
Good stuff, 27 foot jet of poison and the bad guys need to go to the hospital, but it won't kill, and is far more effective than mace or pepper spray. At $3 each, you can afford a few.
$300 Next, go to a local shooting range where you can rent guns, and spend $300 or so renting guns and ammo; you'll still have plenty left over out of your $1500 budget for this.
$680 Get your trio of 20 gauge shotguns. I prefer the Mossberg (either 500 or Maverick) over the Remington 870, so does my wife, but TRY BOTH. Make your family shoot them at some point; they have to know what to expect. The Maverick can be had for $180 or so if you look, which makes it $200 or so after background check and other fees. Get $80 of ammo and you'll be set. PDX makes some NICE home defense shells.
Spend the last $500 for your .45, or get a 10/22 and mod it, or get a VMAC .45, or buy a shooting course, or get a replica pellet pistol for practice, or...
A nice alternative (keeping in mind the home defense AND anti-riot concept). Get a good AR pistol (consider the Stabilizing brace for one-handed shooting, but do NOT use it as a shoulder stock, since that is now clarified to be illegal), matching AR rifle, and one of those 20 gauge shotguns. For the Rifle, I would consider <broken link removed> for non-indoor defensive situations. They have a pretty sweet setup for it on one of their promotional posters, but I wouldn't use a huge drum mag like that until you had put at least a thousand rounds through it without a fail to feed.
I'm a fan of the Pistol Caliber Carbines in .45, such as Aero Survival Pistol ($800-1000 AR compatible), Marlin Camp Carbine ($700-1000, but uses the 1911 magazines you already have), even the Hi-point Carbine can be good ($300-400, but have it tuned up by a gunsmith and converted to use your 1911 magazines). All that said, I have handled these guns and like the handling and feel of all of them (especially the Marlin), but have not fired any of them, and my wife HATES shouldering the Hi-point because she's a lefty.
Oh, and that BerettaCX4 Storm looks pretty sweet, too bad it doesn't come in .45, right?
$20 Get Wasp Spray to keep by the front door and in your car. Wasp Spray
Good stuff, 27 foot jet of poison and the bad guys need to go to the hospital, but it won't kill, and is far more effective than mace or pepper spray. At $3 each, you can afford a few.
$300 Next, go to a local shooting range where you can rent guns, and spend $300 or so renting guns and ammo; you'll still have plenty left over out of your $1500 budget for this.
$680 Get your trio of 20 gauge shotguns. I prefer the Mossberg (either 500 or Maverick) over the Remington 870, so does my wife, but TRY BOTH. Make your family shoot them at some point; they have to know what to expect. The Maverick can be had for $180 or so if you look, which makes it $200 or so after background check and other fees. Get $80 of ammo and you'll be set. PDX makes some NICE home defense shells.
Spend the last $500 for your .45, or get a 10/22 and mod it, or get a VMAC .45, or buy a shooting course, or get a replica pellet pistol for practice, or...
A nice alternative (keeping in mind the home defense AND anti-riot concept). Get a good AR pistol (consider the Stabilizing brace for one-handed shooting, but do NOT use it as a shoulder stock, since that is now clarified to be illegal), matching AR rifle, and one of those 20 gauge shotguns. For the Rifle, I would consider <broken link removed> for non-indoor defensive situations. They have a pretty sweet setup for it on one of their promotional posters, but I wouldn't use a huge drum mag like that until you had put at least a thousand rounds through it without a fail to feed.
I'm a fan of the Pistol Caliber Carbines in .45, such as Aero Survival Pistol ($800-1000 AR compatible), Marlin Camp Carbine ($700-1000, but uses the 1911 magazines you already have), even the Hi-point Carbine can be good ($300-400, but have it tuned up by a gunsmith and converted to use your 1911 magazines). All that said, I have handled these guns and like the handling and feel of all of them (especially the Marlin), but have not fired any of them, and my wife HATES shouldering the Hi-point because she's a lefty.
Oh, and that BerettaCX4 Storm looks pretty sweet, too bad it doesn't come in .45, right?
